Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someones been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practicesomewhat contrived, I admitto write the mans name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: That finishes the incident, and so far as Im concerned, that fellow. The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

Dwight D Eisenhower

That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Elie Wiesel

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

David Gilmore

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Thomas Carlyle

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Jean Paul

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence